It's Friday!

08/13/2010 Moon in Libra

Today was an interesting day. My approach was not working, but I kept with it over and over expecting different results. That was not the way. The way is to change the approach. I need to connect with bigger picture stuff, like Peak Oil, Disaster Preparedness, and Shared Resources. We live in a world that needs tighter bonds within community to begin to approach the magnitude of the problems that we’re facing. We live in a time of major transition, and maintaining the illusion that everything is just fine is only laughing as our car goes over the cliff. I am not afraid of these things, as a life lived in fear is not lived fully. So, I will look for big pictures that people are willing to talk about and link those into community involvement.

I’m going up to Wy’East tomorrow, named most recently Mount Hood. I’ll be camping with close friends on an alpine lake. I need this break to regenerate energy lost in the initial week. It’s always been hard to face the community on a day to day level, but I’ve decided to allow for the opportunity for the community to break my heart. I think that sometimes we forget the Universal Sorrow of the human condition because we live in our bubbles. The human spirit can be degraded or updated, and I’m hoping for the latter. But if I’m not willing to accept pain from my interactions, I am probably not doing it right.

I am excited for this project because of spirit and soul. We can soar together as a community if we are willing to dispel our illusions that keep us separate. I believe that we have the capacity to evolve, and that the time that such evolution is necessary is fast approaching. I believe that our evolution requires learning to trust and depend on our neighbors and our communities again. I also believes that it requires a deep personal commitment from every community member to help make this possible. Responsibility not just for one’s self or one’s family, but responsibility for as much of the human family as we can manage.